The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt Handling the Heritage of the Recent Past [Paperback]

This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (2008), held at UCL on the theme of Heritage. Contents: Introduction: The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: Handling the Heritage of the Recent Past (Sarah May, Hilary Orange and Sefryn Penrose); 1) Null and Void: the Palace of the Republic, Berlin (Caroline A. Sandes); 2) The Heritage of a Metaphor: Archaeological Investigations of the Iron Curtain (Anna McWilliams); 3) Titanic Quarter: Creating a New Heritage Place (Mary-Cate Garden); 4) The Aquatic Ape and the Rectangular Pit: Perceiving the Archaeology and Value of a Recreational Landscape (Jeremy Lake); 5) Attitudes to Londons Heritage: Interpreting the Signs (David Gordon); 6) Where the Streets Have no Name: a Guided Tour of Pop Heritage Sites in Londons West End (Paul Graves-Brown); 7) Contemporary Places and Change: Lincoln Townscape Assessment (David Walsh and Adam Partington); 8) Revolutionary Archaeology or the Archaeology of Revolution? Landlord Villages of the Tehran Plain (Hassan Fazeli and Ruth Young); 9) Justifying Midcentury Trash: Consumer Culture of the Recent Past and The Heritage Dilemma (Jessica Merizan); 10) Motorways, Modern Heritage and the British Landscape (Peter Merriman); 11) Liberating Material Heritage (Elizabeth Pye); 12) Unbuilt Heritage: Conceptualising Absences in the Historic Environment (Gabriel Moshenska).